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"grownup" poems
nobody gets the cancer twice.   (a blues guitar riff) blood in the stool ain’t nobody’s fool, whent to high school did not graduate, but know it wasn’t no thing I ate scale greets me friendly like, long lost buddy from yesterday morn, ‘let get right down to it, let’s see how much less of you borne leftover alive from the prior day’ spirit spit blood from my gums, got me a woman, she’s way over town, woman said I’m brushing with too hard a brush, alright, alright, make no fuss, she’s good to me nobody’s fool whent to school, though I did not graduate, a mean riff is better than a slow moving woman blues cry, got the strings to do my screaming doctor is a fan, name is Jimmy, played music like last time round, Jimmy-jamming, dancing in the waiting room, “that cancer got kick, it’s gonna get ya, think I told ya that about hunner times before” ‘nobody gets the cancer twice,’ an old wives tale for unlucky po’ somofabitches, do you some tests, tell ya the specifics, right now, lay, lay down them new tracks, no quitting time less the good lord comes a-calling’ blues guitar makes a man cry shiver scream and shake, progressions licks and tricks, so you can’t tell what’s making a grownup man cry and laugh louder bring me my medicine bring me my guitar all I know is how it makes me feel, oh baby once a night it’s true, nobody gets the cancer twice
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Mar 17, 2018
Mar 17, 2018 at 4:00 PM UTC
nobody gets the cancer twice (a blues guitar riff)
When I'm a grownup, I would like a home away from home. A cabin, perhaps, isolated from the world, where there would be a lake in my backyard. Maybe I will also have a treehouse, or a hammock, where I would read and watch my children play in the water. Then we would roast marshmallows and make s'mores, and catch fireflies in the bushes. My husband would sing silly songs and play his guitar, and make my children blush with fiery laughter. When the kids would fall asleep in the bunks, a cuddle would be awaiting in front of the fireplace. Where we would watch sappy old movies, and savor our salty popcorn and sweet milk chocolate. Together, we would laugh and cry. Together, we would have escaped the world. Together, we would have been happy.
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Jun 24, 2013
Jun 24, 2013 at 1:32 PM UTC
Cabin
the child of the child of my woman, cries in the night, rooming next door, down the hall and he is all children that cry in the night, but he is more mine by right of quantity numerous are the kisses lavished, this biannual visit upon, his four year old oversized head, (so full of 'bains') his undersized, protuberanced belly body, a combo making him no longer baby, nor a grownup, both states, he denies accurately, maturely in a wobbly voice of utter certainty, but lacking the adjectives of what lies between, he debates his state thoughtfully, until distracted by other more pressing matters of state he is boy, little but vociferous, quiet, pensive, his head a weapon of...confusion and certainty that being four years old, he must perforce be permanently in skeptical awe of the world this is the best position ever, he has ascertained, to filter and behold anything, whatever newness arrives, which is constant, streaming and unending until new is fully digested, analyzed, and classified, as if he were a zoologist in a wild and untamed land only certain of what he knows with perfect certainty, he consults with me still, "you kidding?" such a sophisticated analytic interrogatory, wise in the ways of grownups, who, prone to deceive gleefully his very suspecting mind, so much so, they must be challenged and rebuffed all too frequently he cries in the night, normal tears of discomfort, physical or mental, I cannot tell, for his father his parental hearing more practiced, refined, has preceded me, such, as it should be, and I am dispatched back to my 3:00am bed, left only to ink contemplative ruminations on the state and nation of being four... and sixty, and still uncertain, even more than the little boy of wizened age of annualized four, the child of the child of my woman, on what is real, what is kidding, in a quest unending to better ascertain, the state of my own being and the transitory nature of everything all of what is thought certain, falls aside, under the withering, unwavering, critique of "you kidding?" and in this we are more kin than if our blood was physically shared
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Nov 29, 2014
Nov 29, 2014 at 4:24 AM UTC
On Being Four Years Old
the child of the child of my woman, cries in the night, rooming next door, down the hall and he is all children that cry in the night, but he is more mine by right of quantity numerous are the kisses lavished, this biannual visit upon, his four year old oversized head, (so full of 'bains') his undersized, protuberanced belly body, a combo making him no longer baby, nor a grownup, both states, he denies accurately, maturely in a wobbly voice of utter certainty, but lacking the adjectives of what lies between, he debates his state thoughtfully, until distracted by other more pressing matters of state he is boy, little but vociferous, quiet, pensive, his head a weapon of...confusion and certainty that being four years old, he must perforce be permanently in skeptical awe of the world this is the best position ever, he has ascertained, to filter and behold anything, whatever newness arrives, which is constant, streaming and unending until new is fully digested, analyzed, and classified, as if he were a zoologist in a wild and untamed land only certain of what he knows with perfect certainty, he consults with me still, "you kidding?" such a sophisticated analytic interrogatory, wise in the ways of grownups, who, prone to deceive gleefully his very suspecting mind, so much so, they must be challenged and rebuffed all too frequently he cries in the night, normal tears of discomfort, physical or mental, I cannot tell, for his father his parental hearing more practiced, refined, has preceded me, such, as it should be, and I am dispatched back to my 3:00am bed, left only to ink contemplative ruminations on the state and nation of being four... and sixty, and still uncertain, even more than the little boy of wizened age of annualized four, the child of the child of my woman, on what is real, what is kidding, in a quest unending to better ascertain, the state of my own being and the transitory nature of everything all of what is thought certain, falls aside, under the withering, unwavering, critique of "you kidding?" and in this we are more kin than if our blood was physically shared
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As a child the frustration and aggravation we caused our parents counting down the days until Christmas or our Birthday. And those afternoons in elementary school trying not to doze off while counting the minutes until the dismissal bell would ring. The older I got the more I've counted my life away. Count the years until 16 to be able to drive and be free. Count the years until 21 to be able to drink and feel like a grownup. Counting the months then years of the length of each relationship Waiting to be wed. Then counting the negative pregnancy tests over and over becoming hopeless that I would ever be able to count little toes and fingers. Counting the tears that I shed for my husband, as the fairy tale family I dreamed of turned into a nightmare. Counting the nights left alone, scared and waiting for him to return home. Counting the minutes between each contraction. Counting the moments before my miracle would arrive. Then counting the staples in my belly where she had to be taken from my body so that we would survive. Finally counting ten piggies and ten little fingers Counting the hours and days daddy left us alone and scared in the hospital for him to party and drink. Counting the paragraphs on the separation papers Counting the steps to the court house Counting the people watching as my romance and love was flushed away Counting the almost endless nights praying for me and my baby Counting her smiles, counting her wishes Counting her Birthday's Counting the moments I am blessed to be her mom Counting the hours of work to be able to return home to her. I will spend my lifetime counting.
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Feb 2, 2015
Feb 2, 2015 at 2:40 PM UTC
Lifetime Counting
As a child the frustration and aggravation we caused our parents counting down the days until Christmas or our Birthday. And those afternoons in elementary school trying not to doze off while counting the minutes until the dismissal bell would ring. The older I got the more I've counted my life away. Count the years until 16 to be able to drive and be free. Count the years until 21 to be able to drink and feel like a grownup. Counting the months then years of the length of each relationship Waiting to be wed. Then counting the negative pregnancy tests over and over becoming hopeless that I would ever be able to count little toes and fingers. Counting the tears that I shed for my husband, as the fairy tale family I dreamed of turned into a nightmare. Counting the nights left alone, scared and waiting for him to return home. Counting the minutes between each contraction. Counting the moments before my miracle would arrive. Then counting the staples in my belly where she had to be taken from my body so that we would survive. Finally counting ten piggies and ten little fingers Counting the hours and days daddy left us alone and scared in the hospital for him to party and drink. Counting the paragraphs on the separation papers Counting the steps to the court house Counting the people watching as my romance and love was flushed away Counting the almost endless nights praying for me and my baby Counting her smiles, counting her wishes Counting her Birthday's Counting the moments I am blessed to be her mom Counting the hours of work to be able to return home to her. I will spend my lifetime counting.
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Prosecco cocktails, être pour la danse, cassis pour moi avec limoncello, madame, passion fruit, and blood oranges très grownup, breakfast at Tiffany's, she is all sunglasses and Audreyfied, me and George P., struggling writers, checking if i got enough cash or have to exit smooth, just in case, maybe we leave our coats behind, as ransom? lincoln center plaza cross-dressers, past the opera, the sun, a balmy thirty five degrees, laughing at us teasingly, cause tonight and tomorrow, *********** all the day, winter kisses in case we forgot, early March first belongs to the Ides of Winter Afternoon of a Faun, another ballet, origin, a Mallarmé poem. (you begin to comprehend) yes quite so, a perfect synopsis of the day, Acheron imported from Scarlett Liam who lives in the U.K., but comes to choreograph here, for gloria Americana sundown, soul cold back, "lest we forget," but the dancers bid us adieu with a rousing waltz, frenchified, La Valse, une poème chorégraphique, by Ravel, bien sûr! aroused and heart gladdened, return home for for veal chop love two hours of *** banging, kitchen banishment, (Yay!) chanterelles steeped in red wine, coverlet for a non-vegan tasting, English peas, red and purple potatoes, and for desert, a diet dream of verbal exchanged of detailed I love you's He: I love you, She (happy), replies: I love you more. (this repartee ballet, has been rehearsal danced before) He: Why? She: Because you are kind and generous, to street beggars, my single friends, good and smart, love art, and never let me down, and love my cooking, leave space for others when you park, go thru life making waiters and ticket takers smile and laugh, sleep for hours your head on my hip, write me crazy love poems about veal chops He: What's for desert tonight? She: A ****
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Apr 29, 2014
Apr 29, 2014 at 8:41 PM UTC
a love poem ~ veal chops and the ballet
Prosecco cocktails, être pour la danse, cassis pour moi avec limoncello, madame, passion fruit, and blood oranges très grownup, breakfast at Tiffany's, she is all sunglasses and Audreyfied, me and George P., struggling writers, checking if i got enough cash or have to exit smooth, just in case, maybe we leave our coats behind, as ransom? lincoln center plaza cross-dressers, past the opera, the sun, a balmy thirty five degrees, laughing at us teasingly, cause tonight and tomorrow, *********** all the day, winter kisses in case we forgot, early March first belongs to the Ides of Winter Afternoon of a Faun, another ballet, origin, a Mallarmé poem. (you begin to comprehend) yes quite so, a perfect synopsis of the day, Acheron imported from Scarlett Liam who lives in the U.K., but comes to choreograph here, for gloria Americana sundown, soul cold back, "lest we forget," but the dancers bid us adieu with a rousing waltz, frenchified, La Valse, une poème chorégraphique, by Ravel, bien sûr! aroused and heart gladdened, return home for for veal chop love two hours of *** banging, kitchen banishment, (Yay!) chanterelles steeped in red wine, coverlet for a non-vegan tasting, English peas, red and purple potatoes, and for desert, a diet dream of verbal exchanged of detailed I love you's He: I love you, She (happy), replies: I love you more. (this repartee ballet, has been rehearsal danced before) He: Why? She: Because you are kind and generous, to street beggars, my single friends, good and smart, love art, and never let me down, and love my cooking, leave space for others when you park, go thru life making waiters and ticket takers smile and laugh, sleep for hours your head on my hip, write me crazy love poems about veal chops He: What's for desert tonight? She: A ****
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Childhood memories of yore Drift through my head As I watch that old tree swing Many a Summer ago I would swing there as a child But now I am a grownup woman But my children swing there now Lovingly I watch That old tree swing And memories fond Fill my mind Like the rustling breeze Making that tree swing Rock back and forth * * * * * * * * * * * * * My Mother is dead And now as we fond children recall How she loved to swing Upon the tree swing That is not there anymore The tree was cut down yesterday And the swing was destroyed Vanishing with the swing Are the happy golden memories Of many happy days Spent as children Swinging upon the swing That is now destroyed Along with our Mother's Childhood home *~Marian~
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Jan 18, 2014
Jan 18, 2014 at 3:55 PM UTC
The Old Tree Swing
*they say i'm strong but at the same time weak i fight my things and i don't let it bring me down but yet it hurts me and makes me sad they say i'm pretty but still not good enough i look good and do everything right but i still fail in the end when they judge me they say i'm mature but still so childish i take responsibility like a grownup but my childhood was stolen so i act like a child now* (c.m.h)
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Jul 7, 2014
Jul 7, 2014 at 7:44 AM UTC
i'm strong but at the same time so weak
A writer writes. A writer writes when he wants to and when he doesn't. A writer writes when he is inspired and when he isn't. A writer writes when the words are flowing from his mind like moisture off of a waterfall and when the words are as scarce as republicans in Boston. A writer writes because he is a writer, not because there are people who will cheer him on when he is finished. Sure, most writers dream of the cheers, but a writer who will be a writer tomorrow is one who writes even when the fans don’t show up. A writer writes when everything looks hopeless and when everything is falling into place. A writer writes as a baby coohs. A writer writes as a child plays. A writer writes as a teenager dreams. And a writer writes as a grownup worries. A writer isn't a writer because he was chosen. A writer writes because it is what he has chosen. What does a writer write when the words are scarce? Many scarce words. What does a writer write when the words are abundant? Words in abundance. A writer doesn't wait for inspiration to hit, he writes until inspiration catches up with him. A writer doesn't write only when the muse is on duty, he writes until the muse feels shamed and shows up. A writer does not seek fame, though fame often seeks writers. A writer does not seek fortune, though fortune too often seeks writers. A writer doesn't seek anything but the satisfaction of writing, for fame and fortune are fickle and writing only for them leads to many a blank page. If I write something meaningful and it is not accepted, is it no longer meaningful? If I write words never before combined, will people rave over my originality, or complain about my lack of skill? I am a writer and so it doesn't really matter.
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Oct 21, 2014
Oct 21, 2014 at 2:19 PM UTC
A Writer Writes
A writer writes. A writer writes when he wants to and when he doesn't. A writer writes when he is inspired and when he isn't. A writer writes when the words are flowing from his mind like moisture off of a waterfall and when the words are as scarce as republicans in Boston. A writer writes because he is a writer, not because there are people who will cheer him on when he is finished. Sure, most writers dream of the cheers, but a writer who will be a writer tomorrow is one who writes even when the fans don’t show up. A writer writes when everything looks hopeless and when everything is falling into place. A writer writes as a baby coohs. A writer writes as a child plays. A writer writes as a teenager dreams. And a writer writes as a grownup worries. A writer isn't a writer because he was chosen. A writer writes because it is what he has chosen. What does a writer write when the words are scarce? Many scarce words. What does a writer write when the words are abundant? Words in abundance. A writer doesn't wait for inspiration to hit, he writes until inspiration catches up with him. A writer doesn't write only when the muse is on duty, he writes until the muse feels shamed and shows up. A writer does not seek fame, though fame often seeks writers. A writer does not seek fortune, though fortune too often seeks writers. A writer doesn't seek anything but the satisfaction of writing, for fame and fortune are fickle and writing only for them leads to many a blank page. If I write something meaningful and it is not accepted, is it no longer meaningful? If I write words never before combined, will people rave over my originality, or complain about my lack of skill? I am a writer and so it doesn't really matter.
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I used to believe in Santa Claus So jolly and red and so fat. I was a big fan of Christmas No holiday was as great as that. Not Easter with those funny eggs Not even Halloween with candy. No, that thing about tons of presents To me, that was fine and dandy. And we even got two weeks off Nobody had to go to school. Then coming back with new clothes That made me look so cool. Nothing compared to Santa Claus The flying reindeer, ** ** guy. I used to try to stay awake So I could see him flying by. It was such a great reality To know that dude was up there In the frozen north pole air Making stuff for kids everywhere. That was the world I reveled in, Where everyone celebrated. I knew I was not the only one Who sat by the tree and waited. I don’t remember being confused By the Santas in department stores. Santa had lots of helpers, I knew, And this guy was just one more. I did have a problem with chimneys And a bag that he could lift That carried things for all us kids; Every size and type of gift. But kids have a way of helping folks To maintain a pretty fantasy. We just ignored things that didn’t fit. We went about it very easily. But one day, and I remember when I got let in on the confidence game And Santa Claus was quickly gone, Never to come to our house again. The sad thing is nothing can ever Replace the joy I once felt. Santa was not supposed to be Like Frosty and too quickly melt. So, I have to make do with having The grownup toys I buy myself. Oh, how I could use a flying sled And the help of a brace of elf.
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Dec 14, 2016
Dec 14, 2016 at 3:31 PM UTC
I USED TO BELIEVE IN SANTA CLAUS
I used to believe in Santa Claus So jolly and red and so fat. I was a big fan of Christmas No holiday was as great as that. Not Easter with those funny eggs Not even Halloween with candy. No, that thing about tons of presents To me, that was fine and dandy. And we even got two weeks off Nobody had to go to school. Then coming back with new clothes That made me look so cool. Nothing compared to Santa Claus The flying reindeer, ** ** guy. I used to try to stay awake So I could see him flying by. It was such a great reality To know that dude was up there In the frozen north pole air Making stuff for kids everywhere. That was the world I reveled in, Where everyone celebrated. I knew I was not the only one Who sat by the tree and waited. I don’t remember being confused By the Santas in department stores. Santa had lots of helpers, I knew, And this guy was just one more. I did have a problem with chimneys And a bag that he could lift That carried things for all us kids; Every size and type of gift. But kids have a way of helping folks To maintain a pretty fantasy. We just ignored things that didn’t fit. We went about it very easily. But one day, and I remember when I got let in on the confidence game And Santa Claus was quickly gone, Never to come to our house again. The sad thing is nothing can ever Replace the joy I once felt. Santa was not supposed to be Like Frosty and too quickly melt. So, I have to make do with having The grownup toys I buy myself. Oh, how I could use a flying sled And the help of a brace of elf.
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Somehow, unbefuddled, it all ties together, The happy endings get tied, knots well made, Sleep comes easy, the light dims slowly, finely, Clarity, everywhere, not for taking, just for asking, Wanting is off limits, even inconceivable, and the poem. Why, even the poem finishes itself, and to all a very, Good Night a grownup lullaby
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Jul 21, 2025
Jul 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM UTC
At the end of the day,
The Breakfast Fairies (a humorous treatise) Summoned for to break the fast of sleep-and-dreams that can no longer last, As the clock to noon draws nigh, I happily paddle off to the cabinet Where the cereals that I CHOSE, Since I am now a grownup, faithfully await, calm and in repose. The refrigerator, in nearby proximity, sources a Stony-field yogurt,, A yogurt that I CHOSE, light and sweet with processed fruit, due to the miracle of Aspartame. Distracted, back to the kitchen for Some multi-grain slices to hail and toast, Which I prefer dry (no butter) and ready for anointing with oils of Strawberry jelly. To the table return ready to sound The horn of plenty, When I see the **** Breakfast Fairies have struck yet again! Cousins first to those that reside in nearby dishwasher* The nefarious fairies guard my health tho nobody asked them too! My Crispix, with its malty sweetness, And the ***** aftertaste of sprayed-on "enriched vitamins," has been smothered neath layers of Granola, with cranberries and nuts, Contaminated with a hint of cinnamon. My processed yogurt, vanished, without a trace, replaced by their bacterial cousins from Thrace, which is in Greece, who, tho white, taste like plain yogurt sourpusses, Even when littered with blueberries, Nothing can replace the taste of my Artificial Sweetener! Dry toast has been sheeted and shined neath A tribute of fattening butter, rationalized by a commonality, "Everything is better with butter..." The last indignity is that my coffee, Not the light brown I cherish When kissed by whole milk, Now muddled and muddied by skim milk, so named, Cause they skim off all the taste. Because they are fairies, With fluttering wings, Hasty retreat they beat, But I know where they hide. The next time it be for the morning meal, I will eat it in bed, far from their kitchen hiding places, And celebrate my heroics with original Frosted Flakes and milk, And extra sugar just for spite! The bedroom fairies, living under the pillow, Emerge to beg in iambic pentameter, Won't get nary a bite, Until they they return the poems they stole From my midnight dreams.
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Jun 1, 2013
Jun 1, 2013 at 12:08 PM UTC
The Breakfast Fairies (a humorous treatise)
The Breakfast Fairies (a humorous treatise) Summoned for to break the fast of sleep-and-dreams that can no longer last, As the clock to noon draws nigh, I happily paddle off to the cabinet Where the cereals that I CHOSE, Since I am now a grownup, faithfully await, calm and in repose. The refrigerator, in nearby proximity, sources a Stony-field yogurt,, A yogurt that I CHOSE, light and sweet with processed fruit, due to the miracle of Aspartame. Distracted, back to the kitchen for Some multi-grain slices to hail and toast, Which I prefer dry (no butter) and ready for anointing with oils of Strawberry jelly. To the table return ready to sound The horn of plenty, When I see the **** Breakfast Fairies have struck yet again! Cousins first to those that reside in nearby dishwasher* The nefarious fairies guard my health tho nobody asked them too! My Crispix, with its malty sweetness, And the ***** aftertaste of sprayed-on "enriched vitamins," has been smothered neath layers of Granola, with cranberries and nuts, Contaminated with a hint of cinnamon. My processed yogurt, vanished, without a trace, replaced by their bacterial cousins from Thrace, which is in Greece, who, tho white, taste like plain yogurt sourpusses, Even when littered with blueberries, Nothing can replace the taste of my Artificial Sweetener! Dry toast has been sheeted and shined neath A tribute of fattening butter, rationalized by a commonality, "Everything is better with butter..." The last indignity is that my coffee, Not the light brown I cherish When kissed by whole milk, Now muddled and muddied by skim milk, so named, Cause they skim off all the taste. Because they are fairies, With fluttering wings, Hasty retreat they beat, But I know where they hide. The next time it be for the morning meal, I will eat it in bed, far from their kitchen hiding places, And celebrate my heroics with original Frosted Flakes and milk, And extra sugar just for spite! The bedroom fairies, living under the pillow, Emerge to beg in iambic pentameter, Won't get nary a bite, Until they they return the poems they stole From my midnight dreams.
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The world is a giant trashcan And I'm a dumpster diver trying to discover anything beautiful and white And it wouldn't surprise me if I've already found it, Covered in gum and hair and crumbs in the backseat of a gutted minivan But I'm so busy judging the books with no cover That I lost track of my little paper hearts that I used to give with a chocolate taped to the back And sometimes I stare into this rotted wilderness and ask myself if I've stopped existing Because the rearview mirrors are so grimy that I can't see my own reflection And when I can't see if there's lettuce stuck in my teeth, I refrain from smiling just in case So people stamp me into the category of grumpy, grownup girl But for all I know, We are all lost pearls from the necklace of the gods (but I can't go back looking like this)
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Sep 3, 2014
Sep 3, 2014 at 4:03 AM UTC
Soul-Searching
there is no new, only renewal: the space between brain and mind the harder shell a skulking humanizing container, the neuronic heart cells, brain stem and heart bloodstream scented/stented, deny the newness of no new claim the tower of ourselves built on the babble of old images and read readings, songs in seconds recognized by just the first two notes, the point is this when do you become a grownup, when new is but renewal, with a hint, a pinch, of a new insight maybe recognized now, how will you know me new when your eyes search the iron bank cellar, where, by voice deep, by fuzzy photographs, what tissues will connect when the new sight knows me from too many old poems/songs? !when the babies gather round for lifting up, sky scratching, when the old man grand father, carries three upon his back, a nonpareil horsey ride, when the doorbell rings I’m older than now, you’ll say, read your wild mercury back pages, taking the grays of our mutually curly Medusa locks as a renewal gift offering that will someday match mine!*
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May 27, 2019
May 27, 2019 at 5:16 PM UTC
there is no new, only renewal: the space between brain and mind
I sleep in my cardboard cottage That is my current job. I keep it neat and clean as I can I am not a slob. I have my own place staked out Everyone knows it’s mine. It keeps the wind off as I doze. It isn’t perfect but it’s fine. Part of my job these days is easy; I set out a cup and sing. It doesn’t make me a million But it is something. When the weather warrants it I sleep in the park In the bright warm sunshine; Stay awake in the dark. It seems the citizens and cops All leave me alone Even though they still talk to me With condescending tone, Tsking at my laziness in general Give the charity buck Or maybe a quarter when they see Since I’m down on my luck. There’s this guy Hay Soose But he spells it Jesus. He could spell it that way If he so pleases But that don’t keep him dry Whenever it rains And it doesn’t stave most of the Deep arthritic pains From sleeping under cardboard As his only roof. Watch him shiver in winter if You want some proof. People have gotten to know me As I’m here every day. Some of the even come by with Nice words to say. And, I am used to the noise here; The horns and the noise Of the workaday world of these folks; These grownup girls and boys. Some tell me to go find some work, I don’t get mad and shout. I understand they have some hostilities They have yet to work out. Some of my neighbors here in cardboard Dwell here because they Can’t seem to work life out for themselves In any other way. People fire them from any employment Because they act weird. Some refuse to bathe or maybe it is They refuse to cut their beard. As for me I have had enough of it all; The rattle and the hum. I know society has a lot to offer but I already had some.
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Jan 30, 2016
Jan 30, 2016 at 2:51 PM UTC
CARDBOARD COTTAGE
I sleep in my cardboard cottage That is my current job. I keep it neat and clean as I can I am not a slob. I have my own place staked out Everyone knows it’s mine. It keeps the wind off as I doze. It isn’t perfect but it’s fine. Part of my job these days is easy; I set out a cup and sing. It doesn’t make me a million But it is something. When the weather warrants it I sleep in the park In the bright warm sunshine; Stay awake in the dark. It seems the citizens and cops All leave me alone Even though they still talk to me With condescending tone, Tsking at my laziness in general Give the charity buck Or maybe a quarter when they see Since I’m down on my luck. There’s this guy Hay Soose But he spells it Jesus. He could spell it that way If he so pleases But that don’t keep him dry Whenever it rains And it doesn’t stave most of the Deep arthritic pains From sleeping under cardboard As his only roof. Watch him shiver in winter if You want some proof. People have gotten to know me As I’m here every day. Some of the even come by with Nice words to say. And, I am used to the noise here; The horns and the noise Of the workaday world of these folks; These grownup girls and boys. Some tell me to go find some work, I don’t get mad and shout. I understand they have some hostilities They have yet to work out. Some of my neighbors here in cardboard Dwell here because they Can’t seem to work life out for themselves In any other way. People fire them from any employment Because they act weird. Some refuse to bathe or maybe it is They refuse to cut their beard. As for me I have had enough of it all; The rattle and the hum. I know society has a lot to offer but I already had some.
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Call my name, see the ghost of the past I became. Of this world, I am lost in the shadow left to feed off the old war’s debris. It’s too big for an innocent child that is forced to grow up, don’t you see? In the village, I walk unnoticed – every grownup stares right through me. On my tasks, I try to stay focused, while the one thing I want is to scream. Scream out loud at the people, the street to be heard for a second, be seen. In this world, do I even exist? How, a child, would I even know this? Call my name, bring me back to the living, again.
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Mar 27, 2021
Mar 27, 2021 at 5:13 PM UTC
Call My Name
The path strewn with hurdles and gravels 40 years is a long way to travel Two souls sewn with love and peace Two hearts dipped in bliss Two minds not always in same strength But determined within to walk the length. 40 years of building the nest Patience and endurance put to hard test Before one day the saplings become a tree Heart upon heart two becomes three Through fall and rise and sun downpour Years flew as the three becomes four. It's no easy work to raise a family In all sadness live strong and happily Blocks are thrown doubts are cast Moments of life try to break the trust But we didn't bow continued the thrive A grownup family now, we number five.
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Jul 20, 2024
Jul 20, 2024 at 9:55 PM UTC
40 Years
3 hands kidding hands, an autocorrection title, was supposed to be kissing hands but either works man overcome with an elixir of Sunday bed warming/charming/chilling, lukewarm "hot" coffee, melodious love songs inducing languorously hand-to-mouth, five finger fore play love making a potpourri of knuckle gnawing and gentling kisses upon a hand borrowed from the a tablet holder, while she reads the paper bemoaning the sorry state of the world, the government permissions bad guys... and weeps for the world we are leaving behind a mood changer with 100% effectiveness newspapers- a safe *** condiment think I'll reheat my coffee <•> my hand she cant sleep knows that I'm up at 2:08am composing.   and showed her earlier today the kidding hands poem just as the lights were going down, downtown on William's Measure For Measure so at 2:09am her hand snakes over and wrap itself around my thumb as if she was weaning an infant from what infants like doing, or weaning grownup old men like me from doing at 2:09am, what they should be best leaving alone, like writing poetry or it could just be the woman pseudo-sucking a poets thumb as a way of saying can't sleep head buzzing and in between I love the livening lying of living with your hands thumb in me <•> the facement of your hands dr. mandy is handy with a needling drink of boo boo bo-toxin that auto corrects the face's reflecting times drawing upon it, our bodies facement; an effacement I suppose, or maybe a defacement.   very little to be done to keep the hands couture covering from revealing what devolutionary year it is for you: why I write of the facement of your hands and why I kiss them, your hands, lovingly, hoping the natural  toxins on my lips can ****** their aging, and if they can't, then it is a great way of saying I love you <•>   2:53am
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Oct 23, 2017
Oct 23, 2017 at 3:00 AM UTC
3 hands
3 hands kidding hands, an autocorrection title, was supposed to be kissing hands but either works man overcome with an elixir of Sunday bed warming/charming/chilling, lukewarm "hot" coffee, melodious love songs inducing languorously hand-to-mouth, five finger fore play love making a potpourri of knuckle gnawing and gentling kisses upon a hand borrowed from the a tablet holder, while she reads the paper bemoaning the sorry state of the world, the government permissions bad guys... and weeps for the world we are leaving behind a mood changer with 100% effectiveness newspapers- a safe *** condiment think I'll reheat my coffee <•> my hand she cant sleep knows that I'm up at 2:08am composing.   and showed her earlier today the kidding hands poem just as the lights were going down, downtown on William's Measure For Measure so at 2:09am her hand snakes over and wrap itself around my thumb as if she was weaning an infant from what infants like doing, or weaning grownup old men like me from doing at 2:09am, what they should be best leaving alone, like writing poetry or it could just be the woman pseudo-sucking a poets thumb as a way of saying can't sleep head buzzing and in between I love the livening lying of living with your hands thumb in me <•> the facement of your hands dr. mandy is handy with a needling drink of boo boo bo-toxin that auto corrects the face's reflecting times drawing upon it, our bodies facement; an effacement I suppose, or maybe a defacement.   very little to be done to keep the hands couture covering from revealing what devolutionary year it is for you: why I write of the facement of your hands and why I kiss them, your hands, lovingly, hoping the natural  toxins on my lips can ****** their aging, and if they can't, then it is a great way of saying I love you <•>   2:53am
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Age, Has tale tell signs that show up in the mirror Reminding us of things we’ve done When I look into the mirror I still see my childhood self I sit across from you and wonder How 8 year old me Knows such a mature, intelligent grownup Who knew that fleeting moments gather at the end? I smile A genuinely happy smile and chuckle I have no words to explain How absurd life is How funny time is How we’re still standing And until this very moment I was that kid Who returned a shy whisper across the aisle Without a thought of the future So I smile A genuinely happy smile and chuckle Because everything has changed And nothing has At the same time
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Apr 5, 2014
Apr 5, 2014 at 1:33 PM UTC
Graduation
I want to pick out wallpaper with you. I want to laugh While we're in the grocery store Deciding what to make for dinner. I want to fall asleep ten minutes into the movie Wrapped in your arms No makeup, no clothes, no worries. It seems Such a grownup way to want someone, Such a different way to love. But I have been searching my whole life For a way to exist in this world. This ordinary, mundane world This place I've done much to escape from and to Dream My way out of. I remember once I wrote a poem About how big things don't **** you, Small things do. I said people turn to ash as life wears them away And crumble into their morning cereal. The mundanities of life Seemed killers to me. But you... You bring joy to every ordinary moment. I already know the beauties of this world well. I stop and make myself see them. It is the dullness I've neglected, the little boring things-- I've never gotten to treasure ordinariness. I've always had to slip past moments of silence like a shadow, hoping not to linger long enough to feel lonely. You have opened up Half the world for me. You have given me the freedom to look forward to Every shopping trip Every chore Every lazy Sunday. Things that let my demons out before Now I can treasure them, Now you've let the sun in on them And I don't know if you'll understand how incredible that is when you read this poem But I can assure you ...It's the best.
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Jan 13, 2016
Jan 13, 2016 at 11:05 PM UTC
A Little Thank You
**The Marginal Difference Tween Child And Adult** awake Sunday stuff to do... another unit of life decapsulated, where one will compromise with all those lofty make believe dreamy would-be goals that course thru the brain, when sleepy morphs into the to do list at the premier of today's wacky wakey consciousness movie and a poem forms on lips that have not yet been coffee'd into adult responsibility the list purview'd, and you purvey, foresee, attending, bend back that pointer finger looking right at ya guiltily one and enough, believe getting that one done, will be satisfyingly crossed off that grownup groaning tatooed list of the unavoidable one will make the marginal difference.... tween child and adult
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Mar 15, 2015
Mar 15, 2015 at 8:58 AM UTC
The Marginal Difference (Tween Child And Adult)
always believe in Sunday for Sunday believes in you. though every dusty calendar in the corners of your grownup mind tell you of the neverending flight of Otherday, you know. in your smallest smile and in the smiles of others lies this simple truth: to your childheart, it is ever Sunday.
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Jan 4, 2013
Jan 4, 2013 at 12:24 AM UTC
Sunday
You, creature of heaven. Object of my desire. Soft voice, rose lips. Body shaped like ocean. Your curves: the waves. In you the storm and the quiet. Sunrise and sunset. Sunshine and rain. Childish and grownup. And all in one word: W o m a n
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Jan 3, 2019
Jan 3, 2019 at 11:25 AM UTC
Ode to women
~for Vinnie Brown~ even your kindergarten crushes? what burdens you seek to retain, the edgy border of delicious and pain is a raggedy cut line, as lost lovings, rhymes with duality Once upon a time, a middle aged man left the woman he married, the one who drained and cruel reigned over the destruction of his-dreams, for one accidentally stumbled into, the love who blurred his edges as well, between forgotten happiness and pain so awesome bad when she grew tired of his life's complications, she left him, weeping on the corner of Broadway and 83rd Street was that 20, 30 years ago? a memory from no matters land but the physical ache that marred the hearth in the chest for months and months, sent him to the doc who smiled sweetly but gave him, had no, no relief for busted grownup hearts with normal EKG's that remains a treasured affirmation to this day of life's capacity to love that comes with an ingrown danger of never forgetting did you know the French outlawed the use of the term Mademoiselle in '12 (Mlle.)? I loved that salutation, calling my one true lovers with the soft feminism of that address and still do and you want to recall kindergarten crushes? Mister Vinnie possesses a lovely contradiction, holding onto lost lover sickness that lives on in good love poems this my new found poet, is how that he, this aching heart, fast approaching his shore line for one last return and final departure repays a sweet compliment, from one who complements anothe man's lovely's insane desire to never forget any of it ~~~ reading Vinne Brown's poetry https://hellopoetry.com/vinnie-brown/ and listening to Joni M. at 3:09AM; never wise, but full of hindsight
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Aug 26, 2017
Aug 26, 2017 at 3:19 AM UTC
"may all my lost lovers haunt me"
~for Vinnie Brown~ even your kindergarten crushes? what burdens you seek to retain, the edgy border of delicious and pain is a raggedy cut line, as lost lovings, rhymes with duality Once upon a time, a middle aged man left the woman he married, the one who drained and cruel reigned over the destruction of his-dreams, for one accidentally stumbled into, the love who blurred his edges as well, between forgotten happiness and pain so awesome bad when she grew tired of his life's complications, she left him, weeping on the corner of Broadway and 83rd Street was that 20, 30 years ago? a memory from no matters land but the physical ache that marred the hearth in the chest for months and months, sent him to the doc who smiled sweetly but gave him, had no, no relief for busted grownup hearts with normal EKG's that remains a treasured affirmation to this day of life's capacity to love that comes with an ingrown danger of never forgetting did you know the French outlawed the use of the term Mademoiselle in '12 (Mlle.)? I loved that salutation, calling my one true lovers with the soft feminism of that address and still do and you want to recall kindergarten crushes? Mister Vinnie possesses a lovely contradiction, holding onto lost lover sickness that lives on in good love poems this my new found poet, is how that he, this aching heart, fast approaching his shore line for one last return and final departure repays a sweet compliment, from one who complements anothe man's lovely's insane desire to never forget any of it ~~~ reading Vinne Brown's poetry https://hellopoetry.com/vinnie-brown/ and listening to Joni M. at 3:09AM; never wise, but full of hindsight
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heres what i ended the night with; an IM to my 1st born son and his 1st born son: 2 hours ago Egad, Parker finally realized that he doesn't remember Uncle Colton so he asks about him. He asked me if he is in heaven and if he ever met him since he got to meet Great Grandma Hook and she's in heaven now. It isn't the first time we've talked about him by any means, but nothing as grownup as that. Wowza. about an hour ago i have come to believe that the 5 day duration in which Colton's soul/essence/love left his body and Parker's soul/essence/love was getting ready to join his body inside Christina's big belly (reinforcing the belief that you pick your parents lol) that the two of them met in the middle, had some transendental smile, fist bump and wink to each other in acknowledgement of ea other. I think time is a human Earthy construct so it makes sense for me to say that in that period of time, they did indeed have a celestial party getting jiggy with it as only an entire Heaven filled group of soul/essence/love's are want to do... my proof of such theory will only become more evident through the years as you will notice that Parker does indeed shake his groove thang in the same style as your brother Colton....
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Mar 9, 2015
Mar 9, 2015 at 2:28 AM UTC
to my 1st born son and his 1st born son
Thanks for the meatballs ma' On a mission Be back soon Took a huge jump on my bike, not a moment too soon Got struck by lightning and bit by a raccoon Next thing I knew I'd taken to the sky Swept up in a bubble Passed the Hubble Made a wish As I streaked across the sky And landed on the moon Found the moondust powdery Heartbreakingly abandoned and alone Felt it caress the palm of my hand Smooth as purest silk Gave it love A home Made it a part of my fingerprint And as I did Sprang this wonderfully innocent music Harmonies of such clarity and void of lies Brought tears of sadness to my young eyes As I laid them on this blue marble that houses our skies Still bleeding itself dry Spinning faithfully on the blackboard of life Such grace This wonderfully complicated dance of life Never asked for anything in return Except maybe the answer to a burning question Why all this grownup warmongering? Why? When in the midst of all this hate and terror Every kid in the world is born With a natural instinct To play To laugh To explore And to celebrate The precious gift of their newborn life.
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Jul 18, 2015
Jul 18, 2015 at 7:41 AM UTC
Grownups are stupid